WELSH Liberal Democrats today focused on law and order in their final push for votes.

The party highlighted its manifesto pledges to boost police numbers and improve the rights of victims of crime.

The Lib Dems have pledged to:

*provide 6,000 extra full-time police officers, 350 of them in Wales

*recruit 2,000 part-time community police officers, 120 of them in Wales

*ensure police spend more time on front-line duties

*establish community safety forces by encouraging councils to co-ordinate the work of estate and neighbourhood wardens, traffic wardens and other public officials

*give victims or their families increased rights to be heard in court.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Richard Livsey said he was confident the party would win more seats and more votes tomorrow. He indicated he hoped to win four or five seats in Wales, at least doubling the party's Welsh total at the last election.

"The party is in very good shape indeed," he said.

"Charles Kennedy has proved to be head and shoulders above the other UK party leaders and our manifesto has been acclaimed as a visionary document."

He said, as well as retaining the two Welsh seats the party won at the last election, he was hopeful it would win Cardiff Central, a seat it took at the Assembly election, and "one or two others".

He predicted the Conservatives would again fail to win any Welsh seats.